Reply: My Ministry, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has embarked on an e-Health project for a paperless, modern and integrated health care information management system, which would improve the quality of health services in all the public healthcare facilities. The first phase of the project will consist of the deployment of foundational systems that establish the necessary digital infrastructure to support patient and health service management. The core modules under Phase I include – a) Patient Administration System (PAS) to manage the administrative lifecycle of patients, including registration, admission, discharge, and transfer processes;

143 b) e-Health portal and mobile application to provide a digital interface for patients and healthcare providers to access health services, personal medical information, and appointment scheduling; c) Blood Transfusion Services (BTS) and Donor Management Application to support the end-to-end management of blood donations, donor records, and transfusion processes; d) Reporting and analytics to facilitate real-time data aggregation, dashboards, and performance monitoring to support evidence-based decision-making and health system governance, and e) Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) integration with the e- Health system and deployment across wards to enable electronic test ordering with automated transmission of results from laboratory analysers to wards and patients (where required). When I took office last November 2024, I was apprised that Phase I, which was supposed to go live in November 2024, had accumulated a lot of delays. In January 2025, I chaired a meeting together with the hon. Minister of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation, the Resident Representative of the UNDP and all other parties involved in the implementation of the project. After discussions, it has been decided that all the components of the project would be re-prioritised with the objective of having a soft launch of Phase I by August 2025 at one of the health regions which is most appropriate in terms of site readiness. The current status regarding the project is as follows – (a) site assessment has been completed for all the health regions; (b) supply, design, installation, testing and commissioning of the e-Health system is at protype-testing phase; (c) digital health architecture and blueprint is in process through consultancy services; (d) data and electrical cabling works are in progress; (e) training of the end-users is ongoing, and

144 (f) the Attorney-General’s Office is being approached for the elaboration of the digital health law. CONSTITUENCY NO. 10 – FIRE STATION - CONSTRUCTION